NEWS: Georgia News Digest 01-03-08

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1. video: Georgia prepares for Presidential vote
2. Statement on unified voters’ lists
3. Exit poll under fire
4. video: Battle of the bands enters Georgian election campaign
5. CEC officials go to Iraq, Kosovo
6. MEP to join team of Lithuanian observers in Georgia’s presidential elections
7. Spanish MPs to take part in monitoring Georgian election
8. CEC buys 7,000 bottles of fluid to mark electors
9. Presidential ballots printed in Russian, Armenian, Azeri, Ossetian
10. video: Presidential election in the eye of the opposition
11. Gachechiladze "extremely positive" on constitutional monarchy
12. Opposition plans rally on January 6
13. Natelashvili again challenges Saakashvili to TV debates
14. Natelashvili calls for TV debates with Saakashvili
15. Sarishvili urges population not to vote for membership in NATO
16. Candidate calls on opposition to unite in polls
17. Patarkatsishvili's party to run in parliamentary elections
18. Patarkatsishvili to launch new party
19. Georgia's ex-leader puts in final spurt on comeback trail
20. A wilted rose
21. Whither Georgia?
22. Poll puts economic revival under scrutiny
23. Reviving Georgia's dream
24. Tensions mount by the shores of the Black Sea
25. Strategic Georgia occupies eye of storm
26. Youth activists take back seat for 2008 presidential vote
27. Minister warns against opposition rallies outside polling stations
28. Official warns against rallies outside polling stations
29. Burjanadze delivers New Year address to nation
30. Sozar Subari: Georgian public needs Imedi very much
31. Breakaway territories watch and wait
32. Russian peacekeeper commander sees Abkhaz conflict zone as "stable but tense"
33. Bagapsh says Abkhazia to strive for independence
34. Abkhazia denies Georgian media reports on violence against Gali district residents
35. Kokoyty sums up past year, lays out priorities for 2008
36. Relatives of pro-Georgian South Ossetian administration staff threatened

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Jonathan Kulick, Ph.D., Director of Studies, Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, 3a Chitadze, Tbilisi 0108, Georgia (Republic), jonathan.kulick@gfsis.org, office: +995 32 47 35 55, mobile: +995 95 33 33 40, USA voicemail: 310.928.6814